On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 17:34:14 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
Hi,
there is a new feature with the recent windows 10 update.
You now can compile and run your linux apps (console only) on
windows.
Install XMing and run GUI apps too!

On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 17:34:14 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
there is a new feature with the recent windows 10 update.
You now can compile and run your linux apps (console only) on
windows.
For those who might not be aware of this and are looking for a
little more info, it's called the "Windows Subsystem for Linux"
(WSL)
Wikipedia Entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
Microsoft's overview:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/
Microsoft blog post:
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/
On a related note, Microsoft has also created an open-source MI
interface to GDB: https://github.com/Microsoft/MIEngine. You can
install the Visual Studio 2015 plugin through Nuget - if I
remember correctly it is this plugin:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/725025cf-7067-45c2-8d01-1e0fd359ae6e. There's a nice video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3toI8L3Oug
I currently use this to do ARM microcontroller development in
Visual Studio 2015 with GCC and OpenOCD.
Mike

On Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 08:07:37 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
On Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 03:06:27 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Good news, I'm really not that keen to write a powershell
script.
What OS does it detect and download?
I am not sure how to get this information.
The windows functionality is labeled as "Bash on ubuntu on
windows".
I executed the commands from the script manually:
uname -s
Linux
uname -m
x86_64
Kind regards
André
It's offer full Linux Kernel API to *nix applications. Even a VFS
following the Ubuntu filesystem conventions, where Windows drives
are mount like /mnt/c , /mnt/d , etc. Really you have a full
Ubuntu working on your Windows on some kind of inverse Wine.
However, the new console of Windows 10 (that got a lot of
improvements), have some nasty problems related to keyboard input
that make using some ncurses, and similar, more problematic. For
example, arrows on Vim/NeoVim not ends to work correctly. And
actually using conemu and similer alternative terminals are hit
by the same issue.
Also, there is some people that manage to run X11 apps, using a
Windows native X11 server plus (a full GNU/Linux desktop).
This is really great for Linux & Unix fans that need to work on
Windows by causes outside of his control. Sadly, where I work, we
are using Windows 7, so I need to use to Cygwin and his "limited"
set of packages.

On Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 03:06:27 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Good news, I'm really not that keen to write a powershell
script.
What OS does it detect and download?
I am not sure how to get this information.
The windows functionality is labeled as "Bash on ubuntu on
windows".
I executed the commands from the script manually:
uname -s
Linux
uname -m
x86_64
Kind regards
André

On Sunday, 7 August 2016 at 03:06:27 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 17:34:14 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
The build script is working fine:
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
Good news, I'm really not that keen to write a powershell
script.
What OS does it detect and download?
AFAIK embedded linux support is based on Ubuntu

On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 17:34:14 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
The build script is working fine:
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
Good news, I'm really not that keen to write a powershell script.
What OS does it detect and download?

On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 17:48:43 UTC, Rattle Weird Hole
wrote:
what are concret applications ?
For me it is the possibility to develop applications for the
amazon web services cloud
while not leaving my windows system. I am used to windows but now
I have the possibility
to also develop the needed linux artifacts directly without a VM
or secondary OS on my machine.
Kind regards
André

On Saturday, 6 August 2016 at 17:34:14 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
Hi,
there is a new feature with the recent windows 10 update.
You now can compile and run your linux apps (console only) on
windows.
The build script is working fine:
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
The only thing you need is to install the build-essential
package
sudo apt-get install build-essential
A simple hello world application is running fine.
Network functionality not tested so far.
Kind regards
André
what are concret applications ?